Novels like Chinese Showbiz Begins in Japan
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- 1 I Pursued the Celestial Fairy Early and Became a Movie Star! 提前追天仙，我混成影帝！ "Because you spend all day drowning your sorrows!" "Because you refuse to improve yourself!" "Because you chase after women!" "Your wife has chosen to leave you!" Looking at the System's description, Xu Jiang became furious. Slander! This is slander! Don't think that just because you are the System, I have no way to deal with you! How could I, the dignified Xu Jiang, possibly have so many problems? I am only eighteen! "Congratulations on activating the Star Entertainment Ex-Wife-Chasing System!" 0Votes3.7kRecs27.6kFans
- 2 Chinese Showbiz: My Secret Marriage to the Celestial Beauty Exposed 华娱，我和天仙隐婚被曝光了 Xu Jiayang, a C-list actor, wakes up reborn to discover that he's secretly married to and living with a top-tier star known as the “goddess-like big sister”! After binding to the Wife-Doting Maniac System, he accidentally becomes a renowned director. From a kept man to Best Director, he scores box-office hits with films such as Our Times, Brotherhood of Blades, Candle in the Tomb, and Detective Chinatown. He also wins countless awards for Nobody, La La Land, and Dying to Survive. When news of th 0Votes3.8kRecs19.7kFans
- 3 The Director's Path: Training My Celestial Beauty Girlfriend to Become a Director 导演之路：培养天仙女友当导演 A genius director from the San Fernando Valley! Lin Lu was already good at making movies in his previous life. After being reborn, he didn’t wait for anyone else to arrive. Instead, he met his neighbor, Jiang Wen. Influenced by Jiang Wen, he set out on the path of directing once more. Cannes, Berlin, the Oscars... After winning countless awards and finding no rival, he decides to train his girlfriend, the celestial beauty, to become the world’s number-one female director! 0Votes9kRecs54.9kFans
- 4 Chinese Showbiz's Rising Star: Making Liu Tianxian Cry from Childhood 华娱天骄：从小致郁刘天仙 From “The Flying Insect” to the international film world, Luo Yize's healing coming-of-age story remains true to itself [Reborn + gentle healing, little kid from the start] 0Votes10.1kRecs25.7kFans
- 5 Best Director: 2000 最佳导演之2000 The grand upheaval of the entertainment industry’s new era reverberates, shaking the restless hearts of the people. In this world of rampant materialism and collapsing values, people devour one another to climb higher and go further. Watching the crowds flowing past me, noisy, clever, cunning, two-faced, scrambling for their own advantage... So let us congratulate mainland cinema on producing yet another “traitor.” Ever since setting foot on this path of light and shadow, Bai Wei has wanted only 2Votes7.8kRecs77.8kFans
- 6 Chinese Showbiz: Starting with the Leading Lady System 华娱从获得大女主系统开始 As a clear-eyed yet clueless college student, I was working part-time on the set of one of those crooked-smile Dragon King dramas everyone loves when, to my surprise, a brick knocked me straight back to 2002. I got the System that every transmigrator seems to have, but what’s wrong with mine? I’m a strapping six-foot-tall man, so why did it give me a “female-lead System”? First, the novels [Caribbean Islands] and [Kung Fu Panda] got me noticed. Then, with the low-budget films [The Shallows] and 1Votes4.4kRecs41.6kFans
- 7 Chinese Showbiz: Stirring Up a Storm, Starting as a Director 华娱，从导演开始搅动风云 The entertainment industry is a world of fame and fortune. Everyone wants to make it in show business and gain both fame and wealth. After being reborn, Ye Ran dives right in without hesitation. Starting out as a director, he gradually stirs up the industry. 0Votes13.4kRecs65.9kFans
- 8 Chinese Showbiz: It All Begins with Meeting a Fairy-Like Beauty 华娱，从初遇天仙开始 After getting his share of the spoils from Soros, Gu Li began his legendary rise. He made a fortune during crises, opened mines in Africa, and walked through battlefields. He would build a world-class conglomerate. Starting in finance, ending in industry. He would blaze new trails in Chinese entertainment and set the trends. The tycoons of the past had long since fallen, while a new generation of tycoons was still coming up. Gu Li intended to be the one and only. Problematic works had to be bann 0Votes3.8kRecs35.1kFans
- 9 Chinese Showbiz: It All Began on the Condor Heroes Set! 华娱，从神雕剧组开始！ After struggling in the industry for more than a decade, he finally becomes the director of a surprise hit. Before he can even enjoy his success, he is reborn right in the middle of the wrap party. Ren Yuan really wants to curse that rotten heaven. Since he’s been reborn, he won’t let this chance go to waste. In the entertainment industry, this life, I’m going to take it step by step, step by step, until I reach the very top. I’m going to be Ren Yuan! 0Votes4.3kRecs57.8kFans
- 10 Chinese Showbiz: Something Is Wrong with This Fairy 华娱：这个天仙不对劲 New book: "Chinese Entertainment: From the Start, I Trick the Celestial Beauty into Being My Daughter" All I wanted was to skim a few perks from the System. How did I accidentally become a global media mogul? 0Votes36.5kRecs91.7kFans
- 11 Chinese Showbiz Through the Years 华娱似水流年 The circle is vast, vast enough to make someone famous and renowned throughout the world! The circle is small, so small that the heart can hold only one person! As the years pass like flowing water, watch Gu Wei carve out his own dazzling path in this circle! Discussion group, everyone is welcome to join 629496015 Apply to join the group 1Votes6.9kRecs75.4kFans
- 12 Chinese Showbiz, Starting by Teaching the Celestial Beauty to Act 华娱从教天仙演戏开始 Xu Chuan spent over a decade struggling to make it in Hengdian. Then he was reborn in 2011 as a third-year directing student at Beijing Film Academy. To get through his final assignment, he made the short film Waiting, which moved countless people! And that was where it all began! (This story has one female lead, Tianxian. Enter at your own risk if that's not your thing.) 0Votes3.8kRecs36.2kFans
- 13 Reborn: The Days I Spent Living with the Celestial Beauty 重生：与天仙一起生活的日子 One heroine, Qianqian; slow-burn romance; romantic interactions; a shadowy golden finger. The prose is poor, the writing is awful, the stats are dismal across the board, and far below the average on Qidian. This book isn't recommended unless you're calm, looking for something to read, and enjoy books about Qianqian. If you don't meet all three of those requirements, don't read it. 0Votes12.1kRecs7.3kFans
- 14 Reborn in 2006: Starting with Disney to Conquer the World 重生06：从迪士尼开始制霸全球 In 2006, Peng Lei was reborn and returned to the turning point of his life. As a third-year university student, he had just been recommended by the Beijing Film Academy to study animation production in depth at Disney. His future should have been limitless, yet in his previous life, he had no idea that after returning to China a year later, he would suffer two crushing defeats and ultimately go home to inherit his family's acting-exam training school, remaining single and alone until he was over 0Votes6.7kRecs73.2kFans
- 15 Chinese Showbiz: What Should I Do When the Fairy-Sister Pursues Me? 华娱：被神仙姐姐倒追怎么办？ Jiang Yuan was reborn in 2004. Right from the start, he saved Xiaolongnü on the set of The Return of the Condor Heroes. He never expected her way of repaying him to be so direct: she chose to give herself to him. So here’s the question: should I give up an entire forest for the sake of one tree? I’m waiting for answers online, and it’s urgent! Keywords: director, one female lead, sweet romance, wish-fulfillment. 0Votes4.7kRecs30.1kFans
- 16 The Goddess Reborn as a Cat 天仙重生变成猫 He Mu Chen transmigrates and is reborn after a late-night adventure. That’s normal enough. What isn’t normal is that he transmigrates with a female ghost? Even stranger, the female ghost is the fairy-like goddess he’s been a fan of? And stranger still, the goddess’s soul transmigrates into his cat? But there’s more: the goddess can actually swap bodies with Qianqian from this world! (The first dozen or so chapters are slow-paced and mainly introduce the characters, backstory, and golden finger. 0Votes10.1kRecs12.6kFans
- 17 One Bite of His Pricy Fried Rice, and Old Tang Became His Disciple on the Spot 一口天价炒饭，老唐当场拜师 Li Yi transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a livestreamer who sells things from a street stall. He gains access to a mysterious space where he can learn and pass down intangible cultural heritage skills, mastering countless arts that have been lost over time. His Supreme Emperor Fried Rice is so delicious that a food-review streamer immediately kneels and begs to become his apprentice after one bite. The bamboo weaving masterpiece he creates, Havoc in Heaven, is valued at tens of millio 0Votes35.7kRecs270.7kFans
- 18 I Set Up a Stall in Showbiz and Wholesale Best Actors 我在娱乐圈摆摊，批发影帝 The companion novel to this book: the new story "Huayu: Wholesale Best Actress Awards" is here. In the summer of 2003, Lu Xin suddenly gained the ability to foresee developments over the next several decades. He then began his own business in the entertainment industry, setting up a stall to wholesale Best Actor trophies. “Lu Xin, this is your tenth time winning the Cannes Film Festival’s Best Director trophy. How do you feel?” “Behind-the-scenes rigging, absolu 0Votes2.2kRecs50.5kFans
- 19 In Chinese Showbiz, I Seek Immortality 人在华娱，我想求长生 My name is Xiao Zhang, and I am also incredibly arrogant! The career I pursue was left behind by Qin Shi Huang more than two thousand years ago. That's right, I mean immortality. But before that, I have to make a grand, arrogant appearance in the entertainment industry! Xiao Zhang is about to unlock his first entertainment-industry title: The Entertainment Industry's Walking Natural Disaster! 0Votes9.1kRecs29.1kFans
- 20 The Director's Brilliant Era 导演的璀璨时代 From 74 first-month sales to an average of 1,070 per volume, little by little, we're making progress. Make money early, and borrow scripts wisely. What did you say? Film a movie? Not even a dog would do that!!! 0Votes5kRecs49.3kFans
- 21 Time-Space Cohabitation: How Did I Become a Mogul in Chinese Entertainment? 超时空同居：怎么就成了华娱大佬 I opened my eyes, then closed them. When I opened them again, there was suddenly someone beside me. Who am I? Where am I? How did I become a big shot in Chinese entertainment? Stay away from me, chubby Xixi! It all started with an incident involving a time-space cohabitation... 0Votes23.9kRecs50.6kFans
- 22 After My Divorce, I Met a Goddess 离婚后，我遇到了天仙 Zhang Pingchuan, a down-and-out, disillusioned middle-aged man. Liu Qianqian, a dazzling superstar. Think their meeting will be a romantic encounter beneath the golden wind and jade dew? No. It’s Zhang Pingchuan repeatedly humiliating himself in front of Liu Qianqian. Yet, amid all the misunderstandings, their hearts slowly draw closer. The imbalance in their social standing, the gap between their careers, and the disparity in their identities all put their relationship through one trial after a 0Votes9.9kRecs17.6kFans
- 23 Painting the Heart with Light and Shadow 光影绘心 When a top-tier star accidentally kicks a cool, aloof photographer in Shangri-La, she immediately adds him on WeChat: “I'll pay your medical bills!” From then on, she chats philosophy with him late into the night, shoves work offers at him, insists he photograph her, and even conspires with her friends and family to set him up. The cool, aloof guy gradually falls for her: “How does this woman keep breaching my firewall while shining like a star?” (One female lead: Liu. Everyday-life focus.) 3Votes38.1kRecs20.6kFans
- 24 I'm a Director in Chinese Showbiz, Spoiling the Celestial Fairy, My Beloved 我在华娱当导演，宠坏天仙白月光 A little screenwriter who’d wasted nearly half his life. He closed his eyes, then opened them. In this life, maybe he’d just become a director and pursue that far-off dream. 0Votes11.3kRecs112.9kFans
- 25 Chinese Showbiz: It All Began with My Childhood Friend, the Celestial Beauty 华娱从天仙青梅竹马开始 This is a story about being reborn in 2002 and growing up as the childhood sweetheart of the Celestial Beauty. (One heroine, the Celestial Beauty. That's it!) (New book: Chinese Entertainment: Starting with the Young Celestial Beauty. Do two Liu Yifeis count as one heroine or two?) 0Votes13.4kRecs43.8kFans
- 26 The Lazy Celestial 咸鱼天仙 One female lead, Liu Qianqian. The whole book is free to read. I'm really not her fan, and I've never spent a cent on her. She's something of the unattainable first love of our generation. I've also read far too many books with her as the heroine or a supporting character. Seeing all the nasty rumors and smears about her online got to me, but I didn't want to keep posting comments to clear her name. It's too exhausting, and I couldn't be bothered. So I wrote this book to refute some of the rumor 0Votes2.2kRecs0Fans
- 27 Chinese Showbiz: This Director Is Too Pure 华娱：这个导演太纯情 With twenty years of memories from his dreams to rely on, Su Mu buys, invests, and makes movies... Before he knows it, he’s at the very peak of entertainment-industry wealth, a true tycoon both inside and outside the business! And everything he’s done was simply for the sake of that little girl’s childhood dream. This is a story about directing, making money, and raising a celestial beauty. 0Votes12.6kRecs61.6kFans
- 28 Now That I'm Reborn, Who'd Still Be an Actor? 都重生了谁还做演员啊 (A showbiz novel with an academic, research-focused flavor. Please don’t read if that’s not your thing.) “System, give me the ‘Script Scanner’ so I can study advanced mathematics.” “I’ll look into the insight-granting ‘Mind Maze’ ability and research special-effects development.” “Activate ‘Manifold Reconstruction’ and design a plan for the aerospace group’s new project.” System: “???” After being blacklisted for years because he signed an exploitative contract, Luo Luo had seen the warmth and c 1Votes25.8kRecs155.6kFans
- 29 Reshaping the Chinese Entertainment Industry 重塑华娱人生 A young director whose career was just taking off hadn't even had the chance to show what he could do when he was reborn in the body of a rich second-generation student with terrible grades, bringing the memories of two lifetimes with him. Can he win a place for himself in the Chinese entertainment industry as it rapidly develops after the turn of the millennium? A few years later, Wu Yuan looks at the array of trophies before him with a helpless expression. “I'm a director, not a screenwriter.. 1Votes6.6kRecs79.9kFans
- 30 Chinese Showbiz: The Days the Celestial Fairy and I Swapped Bodies 华娱：我和天仙互穿的日子 One day, Yu Ming suddenly swaps bodies with a famous star from the past. Then a super-rich woman from the real world comes looking for him. Years later, Yu Ming tells their child: Son! Listen to your old man! Your mom shoved a free ride right into my mouth! What could I do! If you can learn even a fraction of your dad's skills, you'll never have to worry about going hungry! 0Votes20.6kRecs48.6kFans
- 31 Chinese Showbiz: Starting with the Beijing Film Academy Entrance Exam 华娱从考北电开始 One day, Chen Mo woke up at eighteen, standing at the crossroads that would decide the course of his life. Faced with the choice between heading south to work in a factory, tightening screws like some nobody, and heading north to coast on his looks as a handsome young man, he chose the north without hesitation. He’d had enough of building himself a happy life with his own two hands in his past life. This time, with a handsome face, he could have it all. Damn it, I’m going to make a living off my 0Votes4.4kRecs29.5kFans
- 32 The Green Years of Chinese Showbiz 华娱青葱岁月 Hua Yichen, a professional photographer, was reborn in the cinematography department of the Central Academy of Drama. Liu Yifei, a professional actress, was reborn in the directing department of the Beijing Film Academy. One became a producer, the other a director. Starting from scratch, they worked hard together and forged different lives. P.S. This is only about film and television, nothing else. The style stays consistent. If you don’t like it, please move along. 0Votes36kRecs46.1kFans
- 33 Chinese Showbiz: The Heavenly Fairy's Private Photographer-Director 华娱：天仙的私摄大导 [Reborn] [System] [Chinese Entertainment] [Director] [Feel-Good] [Pure Love] [Goddess] [Anti-Trope] "Director Zhou! Netizens have praised you as the greatest director since the turn of the millennium. Is there anything you'd like to say to them?" "I owe it all to my beloved, Ms. Liu Yifei. Without her, I wouldn't be where I am today!" Zhou Ye looked at the breathtaking goddess in the audience, moved to tears, and spoke honestly. Others might think he was showing off his relationship, but little 159Votes9.8kRecs59.8kFans
- 34 Chinese Showbiz: The Celestial Beauty Really Wants to Improve 华娱：天仙真的太想进步了 Gu Bei was reborn in New York, back in the year he had just started college. He acquired a treasure trove of entertainment, instantly turning from a level-zero novice into a max-level expert. So he decisively chose a path he'd never taken in his previous life: first, use his max-level directing skills to make a fortune in Hollywood, then return to China and become a major capitalist. Just as he was struggling to get his career off the ground, a beautiful, wealthy woman who claimed to be his cous 0Votes36.7kRecs88.9kFans
- 35 Showbiz: I’m at the Top 娱乐：我就是顶峰 Is the Chinese entertainment industry finished? Have domestic films entered an era of one-upmanship in making terrible movies? Li Qiutang is here. He'll become the mountain everyone else has to look up to! 0Votes46.7kRecs87.9kFans
- 36 Reborn in 2009, I Met the Celestial Beauty 重生2009，我和天仙相遇了 Looking back on his life, Chen Lei had few regrets. He had always had everything he needed. But when he returned to the early summer of 2009, just after graduating from college, he decided to take a different path and create a Chinese entertainment dream of his own. 1. This book is entirely fictional and has nothing to do with reality. Everything is pure imagination, a dream that will never come true. 2. One female lead, Old Liu. No System. 0Votes22.8kRecs53.7kFans
- 37 Chinese Showbiz: My Era of Stardom 华娱：我的星光时代 In 2002, Hero ushered in the era of big-budget commercial Chinese-language films. Industry professionals followed suit, and commercial blockbusters sprang up like mushrooms after the rain. Chen Shuo, reborn with a second chance, looks at this booming film market and decides he wants in too. Get famous, make money! 0Votes10.3kRecs106kFans
- 38 Chinese Showbiz: I Just Want to Give My Child's Mother a Home 华娱：我只是想给孩子他妈一个家 New Book: Director 1978: From the Start, I Went on a Blind Date with the Goddess's Mother When golden wind meets jade dew, their encounter surpasses countless others in this world. In 2023, Chen Dong's first film, which he had poured all his assets into directing, went down the drain after something happened to the female lead, wasting years of painstaking effort. Fortunately, he returned to 2002 and decided to choose a different starting point and pursue his dream all over again. The first 0Votes8.7kRecs119.5kFans
- 39 My Career in Chinese Entertainment Started a Little Late 我的华娱开始的有点晚 After transmigrating, he got into film school, only to discover upon enrollment that not a single person in his class would ever make it big. It seemed as if the class had stolen his luck, too: of the six films he made, three failed to pass censorship and never aired. After eight years of keeping a low profile, he’d gotten to know a whole lot of upperclassmen and underclassmen. He wouldn’t make claims about everyone, but he was friends with the entire Eight-Five Flowers crowd. Then Wang Yi disco 0Votes15.8kRecs95.7kFans
- 40 I'm a Triple-Crown Director, So Being a Versatile Talent Makes Perfect Sense 我一个三金导演十项全能很合理吧 After being reborn, Lu Rui returns to 2001, having made brainless short dramas in his previous life. He also brings along a [Ten-Disciplines-All-Rounder Director] System! Goal: Reach the pinnacle of life! But the System refuses to play by the rules! The from-the-start quest is to adapt a Hollywood movie for a Chinese audience? The reward is all kinds of directing techniques from Hollywood directors? The temptation is irresistible! Let’s do it! I’ll adapt Hollywood films! I’ll direct! I’ll borrow 414Votes105.5kRecs316.8kFans
- 41 Once You Enter Chinese Showbiz, You're in Too Deep 一入华娱深似海 Given a second chance at life, Li Chen refuses to fade into obscurity. Under the spotlight, there are only flowers and applause. As Li Chen makes his way to the top, the entertainment industry at home undergoes a complete transformation. He is the entertainment industry’s cleaner, the unattainable ideal of countless female stars, and the only lifelong partner of the celestial beauty. 7Votes32.5kRecs173.6kFans
- 42 Chinese Showbiz: The Laid-Back Superstar and the Rising White Moonlight 华娱：佛系巨星与进击的白月光 A sweet, single-heroine entertainment-and-everyday-life romance, with no angst or forced character-bashing. [It’s sort of a 1.5 transmigration, so if that’s not your thing, don’t read~] Li Yi’an transmigrates to 2002, a great time to get in on the action. If he seizes the opportunity, he can lie flat and enjoy a peaceful life. Ahem, I mean, become a connoisseur of the good life. Li Yi’an likes all sorts of things: Kunqu opera, guqin, guzheng, skiing, scuba diving... Yet he’s lost, unable to figu 0Votes15kRecs53.8kFans
- 43 Chinese Showbiz Anchor 华娱锚点 In psychology, an anchor is information unrelated to a subject that influences a person’s beliefs and judgments. Zhang Yang starts out with three major domestic film awards, along with a sweep of art-film awards at home and abroad. All he wants is to become the anchor of the Chinese entertainment industry. 0Votes15.9kRecs76kFans
- 44 Chinese Showbiz: Rising to Fame at the Fengshen Training Camp 华娱，从封神训练营开始爆红 Cheng Chi, a third-rate actor, worked hard all his life, only to discover that the wife he’d loved for ten years had been cheating on him. Even the child he’d cherished for five years wasn’t his. As he lay dying, she didn’t hesitate to tell the doctor to pull the plug. Reborn in 2016, he swore that in this life, no matter how wonderful a woman might be, she wouldn’t stop him from moving forwar 0Votes7.5kRecs72.7kFans
- 45 Reborn: Fashion King 重生之时尚天王 In 2009, the chill of the financial crisis swept across the globe, and the luxury industry stood on the brink. Christian Lacroix declared bankruptcy, major brands laid off workers and shut down stores, and panic gripped Paris's fashion world. In the coldest winter the industry had ever seen, Li Xun stood at 31 Rue Cambon. He was a Chanel designer, trained by Karl Lagerfeld and Virginie Viard, and had quietly worked at this temple of fashion for four years. No one knew that this seemingly gifted 67Votes19.9kRecs55.2kFans
- 46 Chinese Showbiz: Raising a Celestial Beauty from the Start 华娱：从养成天仙开始 New book: Chinese Entertainment: The Fairy Became My Golden Finger. Give it a read. [Focused on nurturing the heroine, one female lead] A deputy director who had spent twenty years in the Chinese entertainment industry was reborn in Douglaston, New York, and gained a neighbor named Liu Xixi. Ning Suiyu only wanted to make up for the regrets of his past life and fall in love again. He never expected the burden on his shoulders to 9Votes16.4kRecs55.9kFans
- 47 Reborn: Starting as the Top Scorer in the Arts Entrance Exam 重生从艺考状元开始 [Can you imagine a young actor like me winning the Grand Slam for Best Actor?] Being reborn is precisely for creating miracles! This is the story of an old bit-part actor drifting in Beijing who creates an acting miracle after being reborn! 3Votes52.5kRecs365.1kFans
- 48 Chinese Showbiz: A Former Child Star Who Only Wants to Make a Name for Himself 华娱：童星出身的我只想成名 After being reborn and transmigrating back to 1988, he becomes the younger brother of child star Shi Xiaolong! I'm leaving my lie-flat days behind. I will make a name for myself in China's entertainment industry! Starting with writing, then moving on to acting, screenwriting, and directing... You want to talk about connections? I've got several novels that have sold over ten million copies. I can crush the competition by operating on a whole different level, and all six major Hollywood studi 0Votes45.9kRecs144.8kFans
- 49 This Director Is a Little Too Willful 这个导演有点任性 Zhang Xuan, who possesses hyperthymesia, transmigrated into the body of a rookie director. The year was 2003. Hollywood superhero films had already swept across the globe, and China’s film industry was beginning to develop rapidly. Armed with memories from 2023 and having watched countless films, Zhang Xuan did not believe he could fail. In this life, he would experience a life he had never experienced before! (One heroine) 0Votes4.7kRecs44.4kFans
- 50 The Best Actor: My Entertainment Era 影帝：我的娱乐时代 It starts with the acting department of the Film Academy’s Class of 2002. Zhang Yuanjun swore he’d become a good actor, one even more famous than his classmate Liu Yifei! 0Votes36.3kRecs78.8kFans
